Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-06-11
MARY JAMES TRAVELS.
AN ANCIENT MAID AND A ROMAN
TIC MAIDEN ABROAD.


Found OF Interest When They Reached
the shores OF Msrrie England.
GTh following Istter is the first Of series to b,.
ilrnSiI.,i the rvade"S of this paper from abroad
DN the sutiur 81 Tbr MARY Jane lrttr,S that
1bpHar ,Tur years ago in The Louisville Courier
BuurnaI The writer i ENJOYING a vacation ia
EnsiEud aHd the continent "t Europ-, AMI II l.
expected lIt the letters viii pruVe very attrac-
i've
Plymouth. England, NAV 2S.-Three
months ago. vh,u stated to my friends IN
America tina, | intended making a summer
"Trip 10 Europy they held up their hands in
holy horror AMI shriekci out that ii was per
fecty awful
Why" said they. lit is pncposterous for
sou, a woman, 10 60 uff On such hong
iouTney without an es,urt!"
But" said l. calmly, Il am not going
without an escort Dickey, WHO Is as young
sni romantic girl as am old and prac-
teal woman. will accompany me ami If an
American combination OF that sort isn't
7qual to Combined Europe, 1 am mistaken
in the character If the average American
woman, thai! ali
From that time until the date Of our de
psrturc every effort vas made to diSsua.ie us
from cur mad und, rtaking," as they called
It, but Dickey and had done some domestic
travelling before, and were mot To lie scared
III from attempting the foreign variety. Our
preparations Were u Vt eiabura' 4 or expensive
Enough clothing TO peet ordinary wants WAS
all thought rvcessary, and the least
amount "f baggage vas our chief consi,iera-
tion. We bought tickets via the Hamburg
American line because that gave Us choice of
landing IN England, France or Germany, as
our whim might lie, and We stood forth he
fore cur friends ready 10 20 to Europe.
We had by this time become heroines, and
really believe could have enlisted dozen
women to have gone under our banners
but we didn't want them, for the
more women you have on hand the
more trouble You have on hand, and TIVE is
always company while more Is a crowd, and
hate crowds. Arriving in New York "A
iay before sailing, we visited one or two out
lifting establishments, and bought chairs,
SICK medicine, and such other things a. were
recommended, all of which, except the chairs,
We found entirely unnecessary Men can get
along without the chairs. but for woman a
chair and rug lap robe are very desirable.
81 one THURSDAY afternoon at I O'Clock found
Is on the deck of our steamer, in her dock at
Hoboken, and about Us were a hundred Ger
man citizens, half of whom had come to tell
among them, knowing only the English
tongue felt for an instant like catching up
NV skirts and scooting for home But Dickey
was Jolly.
Mary Jane. said She, Il like this"
but, said |, there Is mo pleasure in hear
ing everybody talking and no; understanding
u word that is said"
"Why," said sne in surprise, its the most
natural thing iii the world. Did YOU ever ia
your life hear forty women, of any race
langs.ase, all talking at once. and understand
a word tsey said, If YOU did, its more than
can say for myself, and l have frequently
b-tn one of the forty"
A minute or two later she said something
Ahsut HohuSen, ana Hoboken being diff
cult of comprehension to the unIutored mind
a. German. and | began TO recover my foot
ing and pretty soon felt glad 10 lie there.
Just as the steamer backed out the usual three
handed man fright hand, left hand and a
little behind hand-chestnutH came tearing
through the crowd TO get on board But he
missed ii, and II cost him so to catch up
with us in "a tug ard climb up the ships side
on a rope ladder. He got his moneys worth,
though, presume, in teing the only passenger
who had climhe-i in over the transOm, 50 to
sJeak. and having a sort of rope ladder ha'o
OF glory thrown about him by those who had
simply walked aboard on the gang plank like
dumb, driven cattle
However brave one may he there is in leav-
Ing the land for the first time peculiar feel
ing and as the shores receie from sight and
the great sea, crossed by II thousand veSsel,
courses and Vet unmarked. spreads out in its
mystery, lis silence and it, danger. there comes
sensation # terror, before which human
helplessnt-s bows in absolute submission.
There j., too, a sentiment in departure from
the land Of ones nativity; the going cut from
the old 10 the new the fOrSaking Of the known
Cor the unknown, and this finds expression in
peculiar sadness which | believe l. called
forth only 10y the sea, have been out Of the
country on several occasions by land and
hal no such feeling as have endeavorri To
sSI.l lain possessed ME when the rolling
touched the horizon and shut the last land
from view.
We had good dinner, first rate dinner, |
NAV say, and thus re-enforcei We came
up on deck and watched the stars,
"the common people of the sky" come
out for their evening promenade, and
passed a delightful evening, and at Its close
went 20 bed with sense Of restful ease and
luxurious motion that never comes to those
who do not go down TO the sea in ships
Friday WAS beautiful day, and the merry
waves danced gracefully in the sunshine until
the night came again, and when the dinner
hell rang at o'clock We knew more than
half of our fifty -and-odd German passengers
There were only four Americans on board,
except ourselves, but almost every German
was an American in patriotic enthusiasm, ami
the men talked politics fluently in two Ian
guages We had representatives from Ne
lraska, California, Texas, Iowa, Illinois,
PENNSYLVANIA. Ohio and New York, and every
man Of them had made money in the land Of
the free and WIS going back to Fatherland to
see the old folks AT hcme. There was also one
from Guatemala and one from Buenos Ayres,
both merchants and both rich. One rather
unusual case was that of Texas German
who had served in the Confederate army.
He told me one Texas regiment had an entire
company of Germans. | didn't know until
he told me that for forty yearS the Germans
had been mmigrating TO Texas, that in some
counties almost the sole population was Teu-
tonic. and that there were many born Texans
who spoke only the German language So
much for going away from home to learn the
news.
Having been informed 10y alleged intelli-
gent persons that sea sickness was largely a
creature Of the imagination, both nickey and
mySelf made ap our respective minds not to
think about it and could not catch ii.
When Saturday mcrung rose. gray aud
gloomy, and the wind was tossing the
about promiscuously. and with it our ship,
We began 10 discover that, think as We would,
the fact was disagneeably evident that We
were having a stirring time, and the stir was
deeply personal Breakfast tasted fairly